Dana Carvey is old enough to be part of contemporary SNL cast members’ fondest childhood memories. “‘Choppin’ Broccoli’ was one of the first laughs I ever remember getting in my life,” remembered Alex Moffat on the most recent Fly on the Wall podcast. “I was just imitating ‘Choppin’ Broccoli’ to my parents and sisters and them being like, ‘Look at this precocious little ham.’”

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Carvey was pretty young himself when he auditioned for Saturday Night Live with the song:

He eventually performed the sketch on his very first Saturday Night Live. (He also debuted the Church Lady that night — not a bad start.) “When I hear other people do it, it makes me laugh,” Carvey told Moffat and co-host David Spade. “But I’m still mystified by how long (the sketch has endured). … It may be the thing I’m referenced to most, in many ways. I don’t...